How to publish a web app that is using Enterprise Library for logging?

Question

I'm building a web app and want to enable logging/error tracking.

After reading the old question here, I choose Enterprise Library because I like the flexibility of handling various events/exceptions differently.

It was simple to setup and install. But, I am not sure how to publish the web application. Specifically... since the logging filepath names are currently set up to my dev machine; when I publish I need to change these to the production server?

I'm also unclear if I need to install the enterprise library on the server... or if the dlls that are included with the project are enough?

Another side question is if I can put the Enterprise Library's app.config and a custom wrapper in my own code library... and then simply add a reference to that code library in my web app. Will that affect how the logger works?

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

You should not be required to install anything on the server, the assemblies will be included in the publish/build.

The issue with the log file paths has a million answers, i assume that you have a handful of settings that need to change not just this filepath... connection strings, et al. what i would do is have a config file for each environment that you will need different settings. Then setup a build script to select the correct config file based on what build type you are running. The link below already covers what you asking for.

Using different Web.config in development and production environment

Now I'm not sure why you want to embed a config file in your assembly... having it embedded in an assembly defeats the purpose of a config file... you want the ability to alter settings without requiring a recompile.